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APEC
APEC’s purpose is to improve lives, protect futures, and educate through the field of human performance and physical medicine. We provide comprehensive exercise and training programs for ages ranging from youth through adults. Our variety of training options include group-based personal training, 1 on 1 sessions, sports specific classes, youth camps, and app-based training available across the country.
Our multidisciplinary health system provides physical medicine including physical therapy, chiropractics, acupuncture, massage, and a variety of recovery modalities. Through these programs and services we will improve a person’s fitness, health, and overall quality of life.
Our Story
APEC (ATHLETE Performance Enhancement Center) started in 2005 on a grass parking lot in Tyler, Texas. Our original company name was Accelerate. At this time our focus was on athlete development with a core concentration on speed development. After years of athlete improvements translating to results in competition we expanded our influence beyond speed. We built our first small facility adding 'Performance Enhancement Center' to the name. Today we are proudly known as APEC. After 10 years of success in Tyler we expanded to Fort Worth Texas.
Staying in the tradition of growth and innovation, APEC added a fully integrated medical staff of physical therapists, chiropractors, and massage therapists in 2022 to give our athletes, clients, and local community access to the best multidisciplinary health system in the country.
We dedicate ourselves to uncompromising commitment in giving the very best, researched based training, service, support, equipment, coaching, and medical services worldwide.
At APEC we push the envelope but won’t compromise scientific principles with trendy workouts. We combine our experience and education with a network of the greatest minds in our profession to give all our athletes and clients the tools to be the best version of themselves.
APEC is a worldwide leader in athletic performance, fitness, and medical services. We provide elite training services for all levels of athletic performance and separately offer the most comprehensive, technologically advanced, and well-rounded fitness program available.
APEC has now trained hundreds of professional athletes in 7 different sports. Our world-renowned NFL Combine Prep program for potential NFL draftees began in 2017, helping 35 athletes per year realize their dream of playing professional football. In addition, we’ve trained NFL MVPs, MLB Golden Glove winners, a perfect game pitcher, Super Bowl winners, and the one and only Patrick Mahomes.
While APEC takes great pride in our professional athletes, we remain focused on the unique training and medical services each individual or team needs to reach their full potential.
Our Story
APEC (ATHLETE Performance Enhancement Center) started in 2005 on a grass parking lot in Tyler, Texas. Our original company name was Accelerate. At this time our focus was on athlete development with a core concentration on speed development. After years of athlete improvements translating to results in competition we expanded our influence beyond speed. We built our first small facility adding 'Performance Enhancement Center' to the name. Today we are proudly known as APEC. After 10 years of success in Tyler we expanded to Fort Worth Texas. Staying in the tradition of growth and innovation, APEC added a fully integrated medical staff of physical therapists, chiropractors, and massage therapists in 2022 to give our athletes, clients, and local community access to the best multidisciplinary health system in the country. We dedicate ourselves to uncompromising commitment in giving the very best, researched based training, service, support, equipment, coaching, and medical services worldwide. At APEC we push the envelope but won’t compromise scientific principles with trendy workouts. We combine our experience and education with a network of the greatest minds in our profession to give all our athletes and clients the tools to be the best version of themselves. APEC is a worldwide leader in athletic performance, fitness, and medical services. We provide elite training services for all levels of athletic performance and separately offer the most comprehensive, technologically advanced, and well-rounded fitness program available. APEC has now trained hundreds of professional athletes in 7 different sports. Our world-renowned NFL Combine Prep program for potential NFL draftees began in 2017, helping 35 athletes per year realize their dream of playing professional football. In addition, we’ve trained NFL MVPs, MLB Golden Glove winners, a perfect game pitcher, Super Bowl winners, and the one and only Patrick Mahomes. While APEC takes great pride in our professional athletes, we remain focused on the unique training and medical services each individual or team needs to reach their full potential.
FOUNDER – BOBBY STROUPE
Bobby Stroupe is a highly experienced trainer and the founder of the Athlete Performance Enhancement Center (APEC). With nearly two decades of directing human performance systems, he has become a renowned speaker, author, and consultant. His expertise has led him to present on various human performance topics at prestigious coach’s clinics worldwide, including the NIKE Roundtable and the China City Bowl tour. Stroupe also played a significant role in launching the CAPEC certification at Nike World Headquarters and worked with Nike Training and the Nike Young Athlete division. Additionally, he serves on the Advisory Committee for Wellness and Exercise at Tyler Junior College. Bobby continues to advise and serve on the APEC board while full-time in Kansas City training Patrick Mahomes, as featured in the Netflix documentary, “Quarterback”.
PRESIDENT – BRANDON STROUPE
Brandon was born in Tyler and was raised in north Texas. While attending Pilot Point high school, Brandon played football for the all-time winningest coach in Texas high school football history. After high school, Brandon graduated from Texas A&M University with honors in Speech Communications with a minor in Interdisciplinary Business from Mays Business School. In the summers of college (2008-2012), Brandon worked at APEC as a speed coach at various local high schools in the Tyler area. He then went on to move to the Fort Worth area upon graduation to work in the banking industry as a branch manager. In 2017, Brandon came to work at APEC in an operations role in Fort Worth. In the years since, Brandon has worked on marketing, operations, graphic design, agent relations, pro player relations, management, and more. He oversaw the development of the APEC app and the migration during COVID to offer digital solutions to keep APEC thriving.
Personally, Brandon is married to his wife Laura, with one son, James. He plays outdoor soccer to stay active.
CEO – DR. CHRIS HERRERA
Chris comes from a long career of high performance and sports medicine achievements. He started his professional career in 2003 when he graduated with his Doctorate degree in physical therapy from the University of Miami. He founded Jaguar Therapeutics in 2007 where he spent 15 years as the CEO and head physical therapist. By combining his business background with his vision of physical medicine, he took a fragmented outpatient system and created a true multidisciplinary environment. By bringing together physical therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, physiological testing and engineering it with strength and conditioning and skills coaching, the ultimate environment has been created for anyone aiming to achieve their goals. Under these principles, he treated and rehabbed some of the best professional and non-professional athletes in Miami and across the United States.
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FOUNDER – BOBBY STROUPE
PRESIDENT – BRANDON STROUPE
CEO – DR. CHRIS HERRERA